The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-04-29

GENERAL.
Six more men arrested for completely IN
the plot to assassinate the Gar on the 18th
of March, have been sentenced to death.
Other conspirators have been sentenced to
imprisonment for life.
THE conferences between the delegates OF
the Austrian and Hungarian Governments
have resulted in = unanimous decision to
maintain the existing compromise.
TIE main points Of the new commercial
treaty between Japan and the foreign
powers have been arranged.
TIE Paris Temps says the malady from
which the German Crown Prince is suffer-
ing is cancer Of the tongue.
AN Irish sergeant who had been en-
ployed in a confidential capacity at Wool
witch arsenal. England, has been degraded
and dismissed for selling secrets Of the Of
fee.
GENERAL BoULANeER, the French Minis
ter Of War, has reduced his estimates for
the army by Is, OOO, 600 francs.
A BILL for the total prohibition OF tho
liquor traffic IN the colony of Newfoundland
was defeated in the Assembly recently by
the casting Of vote BY the Speaker.
RUSSIA has issued four per cent. internal
loan amounting to 10O,OOO,OoO roubles at
eighty -four per cent. The imposition Of q
passport tax has boon temporarily post
poned.
THE news Of the defeat Of the Ghilzais,
by the Ameer's troops at Marut, on the
road to Ghuzni, has been confirmed. The
pretended report of victory O: the rebels
over the Ameer's forces is discredited at
the India Office. Nothing is known of any
fighting, beyond the defeat inflicted on the
Ghilzais as already reported, and tho vic
tory of the Ameer's troops now telegraphed
fr0l Calcutta.
NJ. SCHNABLE, special French Commits
sary at Pagny-sur-M oselle department, has
been arrested by German police. The ar
rest gave rise to considerable war talk in
Paris newspapers.
ARCHBISHOP LYNCH, OF Toronto, has
cabled Editor O'Bricn, Of Dublin, request
ing HIM not to come to Canada to denounce
the evIctions on the Irish estates Of Gov
ernor General Lansdowne.
ANTI CONFEDERATION resolutions were
introduced in the Nova Scotia Legislature
recently. There was talk Of annexation to
the United States.
THE schooner Nellie Blanche arrived at
Key West recently from COzumel, Mexico,
with a Mexican official on board. Tho
official was put on board to take the vessel
to another Mexican port, but the crew re-
fused to go out of their way and despite
protests took the vessel to Key West. An
international complication is likely TO arise
over the affair.
NJ. DERoULEDE, the noted French agitator,
declares that he resigned the presidency Of
the Patriotic League because Of the apathy
the Government has shown
THE French have occupied the Wallis
island in the South Pacific for the purpose
Of establishing a coaling station.
FURLoNG's mills at Firmoy, Ireland, were
destroyed by fire the other day, causing q
loss Of 100000.
The French Resident General in Cambo-
dia has been appointed Minister Of Finances
to the King of that country.
Two constables sent to Castle island, Ire
land, to take the places of those who re-
signed have also resigned.
1T is reported that the three sociallstic or
CARNATIONS in the United States are about
to coalesce.
TUE overdue steamer Salerno arrived at
Queenstown. Ireland. on the I'D. She was
within 500 miles of New York when her
propeller broke March 81.
LIE COHStltutlOudl aIilcluilcIiI piSScu tuo
Mexican House of Deputies on the 2lst by
ss overwhelming majority; 124 Deputies
roted for and only ten against it. The
proposition allows one reelection Of
President It now goes to the Senate
where it will probably be passed without
debate. The ratification by the State
Legislatures is assured
SIX thousand shipbuilders Of Belfast,
Ireland, have threatened to strike unless
paid weekly instead Of fortnightly.
A ST. PETERsBrRG special states that tho
report issued in connection with the new
Russian loans shows the Russian national
debt to amount to &, $50 OGo, 800. The ability
of Russia to float the new loan through the
usual financial channels is questioned in
London.
MONTREAL and the valley Of the ST. Law
renee in the immediate vicinity was inun-
dated on the I'D. An ice gorge jammed at
the head of St. Helen's Island caused the
water to rise four feet in few minutes,
flooding Point St. Charles, Griffintown, st.
Paul and McGill.
A FURTHER fall of continental securities on
the English markets and the Paris and vi
emma bourses on the 22d was caused by the
intelligence (contradicted later that the
French Cabinet had demanded explanations
from Germany in relation to the arrest Of
NJ. Schnaebeles.
TwENTY-EIGHr Indians and five white men
were drowned recently by the wreck Of the
schooner Active of Cape Flattery, B. G.
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